News

Latest stories

  • Orbital ATK's Abu Dhabi-Based Defense Venture to Co-Locate With Al Tuff International; Mike Kahn Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Orbital ATK’s Abu Dhabi-Based Defense Venture to Co-Locate With Al Tuff International; Mike Kahn Comments

    Orbital ATK will co-locate its joint venture with Al Tuff International at the Addax Commercial Tower in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, as part of the rocket manufacturer’s regional defense market push. Both companies organized the Orbital ATK Middle East business to offer defense products and services to clients across UAE in the areas of ammunition production, precision and strike munitions, Bushmaster cannons and special […] More

  • Vectrus Awarded US Airfield Support Task Order; Chuck Prow Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Featured, General, Industry News, News

    Vectrus Awarded US Airfield Support Task Order; Chuck Prow Comments

    A Vectrus subsidiary has received a potential $14 million task order to provide  logistics services at a U.S. Air Force installation located in Bagram, Afghanistan. Vectrus Systems Corp. will support the Bagram Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron as part of the firm-fixed-price order that was awarded through the Air Force Contract Augmentation Program IV, the company said Tuesday. “The AFCAP program supports the […] More

  • Sergio Farache: Avnet to Resell AWS Cloud Offerings to Public Sector Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Cloud, News

    Sergio Farache: Avnet to Resell AWS Cloud Offerings to Public Sector Clients

    Avnet has joined Amazon Web Services’ Government Reseller Program to provide AWS cloud offerings to public sector clients. Avnet said Tuesday its technology solutions business will resell AWS cloud platforms and services to state, local government agencies and education institutions through the Avnet Cloud Marketplace. Sergio Farache, senior vice president of strategy and specialist business […] More

  • ACT I to Provide Advisory and Assistance Services to PACAF's Command Surgeon General - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    ACT I to Provide Advisory and Assistance Services to PACAF’s Command Surgeon General

    Advanced Concepts and Technologies International has secured a task order to provide advisory and assistance services to the Office of the Command Surgeon General at Headquarters Pacific Air Forces. ACT I said Tuesday the order was awarded under the pool 1 category of the General Services Administration‘s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Small Business contract and covers […] More

  • BAE Seeks to Build Up Workforce as UK Launches Cybersecurity Hub - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Cybersecurity News, News

    BAE Seeks to Build Up Workforce as UK Launches Cybersecurity Hub

    BAE Systems plans to add 80 additional cyber graduates to its workforce this year and collaborate with CyLon in a push to develop cyber capabilities in the British aerospace and defense company’s supply chain. BAE said Tuesday the move seeks to address future demand in cyber skills with the launch of the U.K. government’s National Cyber Security Center. The center […] More

  • Michael Daniel Joins Cyber Threat Alliance as President - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in News

    Michael Daniel Joins Cyber Threat Alliance as President

    Michael Daniel, former White House cybersecurity coordinator, has been named president of the Cyber Threat Alliance following CTA’s incorporation as an independent nonprofit organization in January. CTA said Tuesday it expects Daniel to bring to the alliance his experience in the development of strategic cyber programs and partnerships that span across industry and the public […] More

  • ThreatConnect Unveils New Threat Intelligence Product Suite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in News, Products & Service

    ThreatConnect Unveils New Threat Intelligence Product Suite

    ThreatConnect has released a new set of threat intelligence products designed to help security teams identify relevant threats, protect networks and carry out measurable incident response. The company said Monday TC Complete, TC Identify, TC Manage and TC Analyze are built on the ThreatConnect Platform that works to help organizations understand adversaries, automate security operations and mitigate threats. Andy Pendergast, vice […] More

  • Northrop Helps Army Test-Fly Upgraded Black Hawk Helicopter - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Northrop Helps Army Test-Fly Upgraded Black Hawk Helicopter

    Northrop Grumman has collaborated with the U.S. Army and Redstone Defense Systems to conduct the first test flight of a UH-60V Black Hawk helicopter equipped with a digitized cockpit. Northrop said Monday it supplied the Integrated Avionics Suite for the UH-60V modernization program, which seeks to replace the older analog gauges of the Army’s UH-60L Black Hawk fleet with digital electronic instrument displays. Redstone […] More

  • DigitalGlobe, NTT Data Partner to Add Elevation Data for Imagery Product Users - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in C4ISR News, News

    DigitalGlobe, NTT Data Partner to Add Elevation Data for Imagery Product Users

    DigitalGlobe and NTT Data have partnered to include elevation data availability in both companies’ products as part of efforts to grow in the imagery information market. DigitalGlobe will offer NTT Data’s 5-meter digital elevation model called AW3D Standard to help broaden the latter’s global sales network, NTT Data said Tuesday. James Rogers, vice president of product marketing and management at DigitalGlobe, said […] More

  • GSA Seeks Info on Entity Identification, Validation Support Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    GSA Seeks Info on Entity Identification, Validation Support Sources

    The General Services Administration has begun its search for potential industry sources of entity identification and validation support services. Dun & Bradstreet currently provides such services under a contract that is set to expire in 2018, GSA said Monday. The Federal Acquisition Regulation and 2CFR policies also have been updated to eliminate references to D&B and its proprietary Data Universal […] More

  • NASA Taps Ball Aerospace for Suomi NPP Satellite Engineering Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in News, Products & Service

    NASA Taps Ball Aerospace for Suomi NPP Satellite Engineering Support Contract

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has received a potential five-year, $9.5 million contract from NASA to continue to provide sustaining engineering support services for the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership Sustainability satellite. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract has a minimum task ordering value of $50,000 and covers engineering services to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s office of […] More

  • Seagate, Fornetix Integrate Hard Drive, Data Encryption Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Cybersecurity News, News

    Seagate, Fornetix Integrate Hard Drive, Data Encryption Offerings

    Seagate Technology has integrated its hard disk and solid state drive products with Fornetix‘s encryption key management software and service offerings in an effort to help federal customers secure data against cyber threats. The integrated offering combines Seagate-built drives that comply with Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 and the Key Orchestration platform Fornetix designed to help users manage the digital keys […] More